Monitor General, Trade and LookingForGroup channels in major cities for raid offers.

Remote search. With activated addon communication option guild mates, mutual friends and battlenet friends using this addon will monitor city channels for you while you are out of town and inform you about the results.

Cross-character support. Hits made on one character are available on all your characters of the same faction.

Sound and text notifications for hits with timeout option to avoid irritation because of spammed messages.

Optionally exclude saved instances from monitoring.

Postings of players from the raid you are currently in will be omitted.

Whisper players directly by using the 'Whisper' button. No problems with tricky names with accents, umlauts and other creative spelling.

BRF Forwarder: Forwards LFG messages to all users of the plugin so they can track raid offers as long as one of them is in a major city.

BRF Forwarding Tracker: Keeps track of messages forwarded by LFGForwarder and TradeForwarder and feeds them to the addon.

Option 'Message Filters' - Applies chat filters such as spam filters introduced by other addons before processing messages. Recommended when using forwarding plugins to make sure you are not reported for forwarding spam.

Option 'Filter Matches' - Removes matches made by the addon from being shown in the chat windows.

Install -

Copy the Broker_RaidFinder folder to your Interface\AddOns directory.

Commands -

/braidfinder arg
/brfind arg

With arg:
version - display version information
menu - display options menu
on - activate monitoring
off - deactivate monitoring
show - show log window
help - display this help

Usage -

In options select raids to search for and activate monitoring to start.

Activate addon communication option for remote searches. This means when you are in town you may act as server for other clients out of town. If you are out of town you will engage other players as server for your remote searches. NOTE: see section Restrictions

Interface -

Icon -

colored icon - indicates active monitoring

grey icon - indicates deactivated monitoring

Label -

I: - Number of matched instances.

P: - Total number of players searching for any of your tracked instances.

! - Remote monitoring active, that means a player is actively working as server for you monitoring the city channels.

Tooltip -

For each tracked instance last hit is shown with name of searching player, total number of matches for that instance and time since last match.

Saved instances are marked red.

Instances without hit are grey.

Color-coded time since match (green for most recent; red means that match almost has reached end of time frame and is about to be removed from list).

Log window -

Lists all matches for tracked instances with time, author and instance.

For selected entry complete message will be shown.

Filter log list by instance or source. Source is the character who found the match. (current character, alt or remote character)

'Whisper' button to contact selected player directly.

Options -

General -

Monitoring active - Activate/deactivate the monitoring.

Addon communication - Toggle whether or not the addon shall sync with addons of other players.

Exclude Saved Raids - Exclude raids you are currently saved to from monitoring.

Time Frame - Set up how long the log will reach back.

Notifications - Set up notifications when addon finds a match.

Text Alert - Show text message when addon finds a match.

Sound Alert - Play sound when addon finds a match.

Notification Sound - Choose sound to be played on notifications.

Timeout - Set notification timeout. You will not be notified about matches of a single player for the same instance more than once during the timeout duration.

Extras

Message Filters - Applies chat filters such as spam filters introduced by other addons before processing messages. Recommended when using forwarding plugins to make sure you are not reported for forwarding spam.

Filter Matches - Removes matches made by the addon from being shown in the chat windows.

Plug-ins

Every plugin registered with the addon will be added in this section. There are 3 options for each of them.

Activate - Activated/deactivates plug-in.

Label - Activates/deactivates label extension of the main addon.

Tooltip - Activates/deactivates tooltip extension of the main addon.

Restrictions -

Addon communication is restricted to your guild mates, chars of your battlenet friends in the current realm and mutual(!) friends who have this addon running as well. Addon communication has to be activated on both sides.

Especially you cannot just add players you frequently see in the city chats to your friend list in the hope they run this addon so they now can do the searching for you.

Remote monitoring is restricted to default keywords. This is to prevent players from creating excessively long or accidentally or maliciously malformed keyword lists for remote search.

For clients without supported localization this will default to english localization which in all likelyhood will confine the usability of this addon considerably for players using such clients. Help with proper localized lists of default keywords for non-english clients is greatly appreciated.

The matching works on a first hit policy. If a message contains more than one of your searched instances it will register only for the instance of the first hit in the message.

For remote monitoring this means that some clients might miss out on a hit when one client is registered for the first hit and another for the omitted second hit. That restriction is in place in order to keep the work for the server addon low so the player doing the searching for you does not face excessive load due to this service.

* fixed bug in BRF_Forwarder which was joining a fallback channel if player already is in the BRFForwarder channel (for example after /reloadui)

Update r007:

* reduced usage of LibWho by getting class by guid when possible
* storing class of author together with messages
* removed unnecessary registering messages of plug-ins from chat frames

Update r006:

* addedd plug-in support to extend addon functionality
* added plugin BRF Forwarder: Forwards LFG messages to all users of the plugin so they can track raid offers as long as one of them is in a major city.
* added plugin BRF Forwarding Tracker: Keeps track of messages forwarded by LFGForwarder and TradeForwarder and feeds them to the addon.
* new option 'Message Filters' - Applies chat filters such as spam filters introduced by other addons before processing messages
* new option 'Filter Matches' - Removes matches made by the addon from being shown in the chat windows.
* avoiding all UIDropDownMenu_* functions during combat to avoid tainting problems (doesn't seem to help much)
* cleanup code

This would allow the user to add custom notify strings to be notified for any desired keywords.
Would add even more power to an already great program.
For example maybe the user wants to be notified when a player is looking to join a guild, selling a particular potion or looking for a PvP team. The possibilities would be endless.